Hi—I have some free Azure credits and would like to use them to host a personal Lemmy instance. I know Lemmy is containerised, but is there a preferred choice for hosting in Azure—AKS, Azure Container Apps, Container Instances? Also, any guidance on appropriate PostgreSQL configuration—I know there are some options around that.

Also, can anyone point me at what resource utilisation will look like for a Lemmy instance—I imagine disk space is more of a concern that compute usage.

  • embixEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    In terms of just Lemmy-created data, my personal 10-day instance has stored about 6.2GB of data

    260 GiB/a is a magnitude more than I anticipated.

    Will my cloud storage costs become so unreasonable in a year, that I’ll have to stop hosting Lemmy?

    Exactly what I’m thinking right now. And if I subscribe to a sub that get’s really popular and it really fetches every post, I might be busy attaching spinning rust to a logical volume since SSDs aren’t that cheap. OTOH it only needs to store everything I see on other instances - maybe that’s configurable. I haven’t looked into the actual code yet, but that would seem like a reasonable use case for a single user instance.